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About 44% of the state’s population is fully vaccinated.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) A vial of saline and the Pfizer COVID19 vaccine at the Woods Cross High School context clinic by Nomi Health, April 27, 2021. County and regional health districts are setting up vaccination clinics in high schools, to vaccinate 16 and 17 year olds with COVID-19.
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There were more than 1,200 new cases of COVID-19 in Utah in three days this weekend, and six more people have died from the coronavirus.
(The Utah Department of Health no longer provides daily COVID updates on weekends.)
Nearly 9,000 Utahns received a dose of a coronavirus vaccine on Friday and Sunday, and the number of Utahns fully vaccinated against COVID-19 rose to 1.43 million – just over 44% of the total population of State. And nearly 1.61 million people have received at least one dose of one of the vaccines.
To date, UDOH has identified 2,249 “breakthrough cases” of COVID-19 – people who contracted the virus 14 days or more after being fully vaccinated. That’s 0.03% of the fully vaccinated population.
And 187 of these revolutionary cases (0.001%) had to be hospitalized; six died (0.0004%).
Vaccine doses administered in the last three days / total doses administered • 8 835/2 915 971.
Fully vaccinated utahns • 1,433,575.
Cases reported in the last three days • 1,245 to 495 on Friday, 486 on Saturday and 264 on Sunday. Seven previously reported cases were removed from the total number of cases (now 418,976) after further testing.
Deaths reported in the last three days • Six – two men aged 65 to 84 in Washington County; a man from Davis County 45-64; and three women aged 65 to 84: one in Tooele County, one in Utah County, and one in Weber County.
Tests reported in the last three days • 8,835 people were tested for the first time. A total of 14,294 people were tested.
Hospitalizations reported in the past three days • 220. That’s 17 less than Friday. Of those currently hospitalized, 93 are in intensive care, seven fewer than on Friday.
Percentage of positive tests • According to the original state method, the rate is 14.1%. This is higher than the seven-day average of 12.3%.
The state’s new method counts all test results, including repeat testing of the same individual. Monday’s rate was 8.7%, above the seven-day average of 8.2%
[Read more: Utah is changing how it measures the rate of positive COVID-19 tests. Here’s what that means.]
Totals to date • 418,976 cases; 2,399 deaths; 17,822 hospitalizations; 2,834,431 people tested.
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